Should we add the hash of the .iso.dec to the database as well? Or create a dedicated dat file ?

Please, do not

WiiUnscrubber

ok, at least it works with Captain Rainbow

requirements:
~15 Gb hdd space
~15 minutes

command
wiiUnscrubber.exe wii.iso

P.S.
Pro_Golfer_Saru_JAP_WII-TMD works

Thank you for making this. I had a few non scene files I got my hands on that were scrubbed and I needed a way to unscrub them when I found this. It worked perfectly...except for the ones I later found had been rebuilt to remove the update partition which caused this tool to crash. It would be nice if this tool would output some text to say what it's doing so I'm not staring a a blinking cursor wondering if it's working. Also just by the nature of how you wrote it I found I can just drag the ISO to it and it will run without having to open the command prompt and type anything.

ok, at least it works with Captain Rainbow

requirements:
~15 Gb hdd space
~15 minutes

command
wiiUnscrubber.exe wii.iso

P.S.
Pro_Golfer_Saru_JAP_WII-TMD works

Donkey_Kong_Jungle_Beat_JAP_WII-TMD - scrubbed

Their is more, mainly releases by TMD, let me know how you get on

I actually meant Asia Wii games.

there is Wii scrubbed releases too? OMG, I thought GC was a good lesson...

so, which one to test?

Is their a small chance you could invent a tool to fix scrubbed isos, that way it would be easier collecting missing Asian dumps in particular, as a lot of the scene releases got scrubbed, rendering them useless to redump collectors, but a scrubbed iso fixing tool, I am guessing would go down a treat

it's possible, but with very few scene isos

the kinds of scene isos:

1) 1:1 clean isos
2) scrubbed, simply junk removed (GCtool from paradox) (possible to restore, since FST is untouched)
3) shrinked, junk removed + rellocated files to make smaller iso (not possible, FST is rebuilded)
4) scrubbed and relocated files (starcube group release) (inpossible to recover, FST is rebuilded)

I have already such tool, but there is a very small chance of success
tossEAC, which Asian dumps are missing?

FOXHOUND Would like to ask you something, about some sort of romulus integration, but he has no way of contacting you. Would you like me to find a way you can get hold of him, I'm sure he has an email address or something.

Sure, how can I contact?

Thanks for beta 1, much better to be able to have isos on one drive and the created dec.iso on another, doesn't seem to have any speed increase though, which is strange, but still a good option.

LedZeppelin68 wrote:

I have processed with it ~800 GC isos and ongoing.

the statistic is: 3 isos cannot be decoded properly

Sega Soccer Slam (Japan) - has error in file system
Doshin the Giant and Kyojin no Doshin have errors in garbage, unknown reason

Maybe the first one is a bad dump? Is there a scene release to compare with?

it is not bad dump for sure

I'll show you
GameCube has its own filesystem - FST.

every file in FST have 12-byte record, divided in three 32bit big-endian values:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00278030                                      00 00 09 70              ...p
00278040  29 01 D0 48 00 27 90 E1                          ).РH.'ђб

0x00000970 0x2901D048 0x002790E1

0x00000970 - first 0x00 means it is a file, (0x01 means a directory)
0x970 - is offset of file name (by the way it's name "soccerslam.dsf")

0x2901D048 - offset in image, where file starts
0x002790E1 - size of file

very simple

0x2901D048 + 0x002790E1 = 0x29296129 must be the end of file, but take a look, there is extra data after it

maybe bad dump, but there is one thing, lets look inside the image, and there is interesting founding

soccerslam.ddf
soccerslam.dif
soccerslam.dlf
soccerslam.dol
soccerslam.dsf

this files used by official makegcm tool to build iso, look inside dif file, it is text file

0x000000c5=0,0x2901d048,0x002790e1,"soccerslam.dsf"
very similiar values

dif file used to make FST, but complete iso made using dsf, which does not have size values, only offset, where file belong
so editing dsf without updating dlf, brings this mastering error

I have processed with it ~800 GC isos and ongoing.

the statistic is: 3 isos cannot be decoded properly

Sega Soccer Slam (Japan) - has error in file system
Doshin the Giant and Kyojin no Doshin have errors in garbage, unknown reason

Maybe the first one is a bad dump? Is there a scene release to compare with?

NASOS already support it, just drag several ISOs

the only verification NASOS do is storing md5 of ISO in .dec file, and comparing it against md5 of decoded image

I wanna show you another tool, successor of NASOS, GameCube ISO Merger (do not works with Wii by now)
do_0m, it does all that you want.

the only difference, that besides removing garbage padding, it also removes duplicate data (like Walrus do)
and like Walrus, it merges all region clones of one game in one container

Merger - do batch merges (you can specify output folder, from one hdd to other, speed increase)
Archiver - 7z batch archiver, works with any files
Tester - unmerges in memory and verifies, also use it as batch unmerger
Log - shows info about gcmerge file

I have processed with it ~800 GC isos and ongoing.

the statistic is: 3 isos cannot be decoded properly

Sega Soccer Slam (Japan) - has error in file system
Doshin the Giant and Kyojin no Doshin have errors in garbage, unknown reason